A con artist calling himself
Prince Dalmar El Faro comes to
Greenpoint telling everyone who will listen to him about the starving Trombonians
of his native country. He says his countrymen "do not ask for charity -
all they want is money." Local authoress
Fawn Ocheltree decides to help raise the money by writing a play set in Ancient Rome
to be played by the kids. The gang is not interested, but their mothers
press them into it. It's after their bedtime, and they are trying to
recite lines they do not understand.
Mickey giggles as
Little Mary, playing a slave girl, begs for mercy from
Joe Cobb playing Nero.
Ernie and
Farina playing captured cannibals start yawning as does the entire audience.
Jackie enters from the wrong side of the stage, and an effect showing Mickey supposedly on horseback falls apart.
Jackie livens things up by tying firecrackers to the tail of a cow being posed
as a bull. The resulting fracas leads to a box of fireworks going off
as everyone runs for the hills, bringing the whole scam to a halt.